Cscope: Many buffer overflows

Background

Cscope is a developer’s tool for browsing source code.

Description

Cscope does not verify the length of file names sourced in #include statements.

Impact

A user could be enticed to source a carefully crafted file which will allow the attacker to execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Cscope.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Cscope users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-util/cscope-15.5-r6"